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The iPhone is gluing itself to me… already.

For some time I have been searching the web for a database for sunrise, sunset times (that part was easy), but what I REALLY needed was to know WHERE the sun would be rising or setting on any given day of the year, and know the information for any location on earth, and from any location, even though I was sitting in my office planning my next shoot to hopefully add to my Fine Art Gallery. I couldn’t find what I needed… until the iPhone came into my life, and there it was, Vincent Kekoa’s Sunrise Sunset Pro… and all for $1.99. So now I can lay out the map, enter the GPS coordinates into the app, and know that if I am standing at point X on Georgian Bay looking out at the Killarney Lighthouse, I can know where the sun will be rising relative to the subject on any given day of the year. Thanks Vincent.

This app rocks, pretty, useful… and easy to use. I give it 5 stars.

Find it at http://www.appstorehq.com/sunrisesunsetpro-iphone-41877/app

Find iPhone apps at AppStoreHQ

until the next time, Garth

I Finally took the plunge and purchased an iPhone! Not so much that I really needed a cell phone, (never had one before) but I suspect that, like my other really good tools, (iMac, Nikon D700 etc.) in a year from now you won’t be able to pry it from my hands. That being said, the cell phone has already been useful for conveying my excuses (reasons) as to why I’m coming home late… again. I got caught in a huge thunderstorm the other day, lucky me. Great clouds… and a rainbow to boot. The rainbow was forming over one of Vale INCO’s operations buildings, the old Iron Ore Recover Plant, and seeing the local labor strife is adding to the already difficult economic times of Sudbury (like everywhere else), I thought the rainbow was a nice symbol of promise for better days ahead… hey, worked for Noah!

These images were made with my Canon G9… It’s small and good. I try not to leave home without it. Great for such occasions when I’m not toting the full camera bag of Nikons.

a la prochaine, Garth

PS just want give my webmaster a big thank you for the redesign work he is just completing. Note to photographers… I know I’m a good photographer and I know a fair bit of Photoshop, so I thought I could also be a web designer… couldn’t do it… wasted a lot of money and time getting frustrated with Dreamweaver etc. Hired James… sticking to photography… same goes for accounting! James specializes in WordPress layouts for photographers.You can find him at http://big-red-couch-web-design.com/